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Proceedings of a Board of Officers Convened at Fort Sedgwick C.T. per Special Orders No. 4 manuscript title.

1869Best.-Nr. 58233Fort Sedgwick Colorado Territory. January 6 1869. Army Frontier Outpost Trials the Mills Cartridge Belt A brief but enlightening manuscript military report from the short-lived Fort Sedgwick in Colorado recording the results of a series of tests undertaken to compare new designs for cartridge belts and boxes. Fort Sedgwick was built as a frontier outpost in 1864 in response to growing unrest and violent conflict with Native Americans during the Civil War and was known as a particularly challenging post due to the poor quality of its construction and its lack of access to water and wood. Parts of the 18th Infantry Regiment were stationed at Fort Sedgwick from 1866 but it became their headquarters at the beginning of 1869 making these tests some of their first actions at their new base. The report titled "Proceedings of a Board of Officers Convened at Fort Sedgwick C.T. per Special Orders No. 4" begins with a brief excerpt of those orders. They name the officers James Stewart R.P. Hughes and R.F. Bates and outline their duty "to make further trial of the relative merits of various patterns of Army Cartridge Box and Cartridge Belt." Comparing the Morris Pattern cartridge box Crispin Pattern cartridge box and a new cartridge belt through a variety of trials the board determined the following: "The Morris Pattern containing thirty six rounds 36 was emptied in thirty 30 seconds less time than Crispin's pattern Containing Thirty five 35 rounds and one minute and twenty seven 27 seconds less time than the Cartridge Belt containing forty 40 rounds. "The Boards then put all the Cartridge Boxes and the Belt in water and they remained in that way two days to test the swelling of the wood in the Morris Crispin and Hadley Cartridge Boxes and the tightening of the leather in the Cartridge Belt. When taken out it was found that the Boxes Belt work quite as well as when dry…. "The Board is of opinion that the weight is more equally divided in the Belt than in the Cartridge Box and easier on the men when marching in double time; they are further of the opinion that the Belt is in every way suitable for Campaigning purposes but for the soldier in garrison they are of opinion that the Cartridge Box Morris Pattern is more suitable the reasons are that the Belt as it is at the present time to look soldierly and neatly must contain the full number of rounds of Cartridges for which it is made while the Cartridge Box may only have a few rounds to make the weight lighter and still retain its neatness. "In the opinion of the Board the belt has many advantages one of them above named is that…it remains steadier in its place and the other is that the weight is more equally distributed; in the other hand the Cartridge Box Morris Pattern is more soldierly in appearance and the Cartridges can be handled more quickly and with less exertion than the Belt." Although his name is not mentioned in the report itself the document is docketed "Report of Officers on Belt Submitted by Lt. Anson Mills." The belt at hand then is in fact the famous Mills Cartridge Belt. While not immediately adopted following this report it became widespread throughout the United States Canada and England after Mills patented it in 1881 making Mills who remained in service until 1896 into a wealthy man. An interesting report from a frontier post following the Civil War recording the earliest tests of what would become a standard piece of military equipment for the next several decades. Slightly tanned scattered soiling very minor splitting at the edges of old folds. Very good. hardcover books

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Best.-Nr. 12909San Jose CA: Gist & Erdmann Inc. / Panoramic Map Productions 1989. Color printed map on sturdy glossy paper 39 x 26.75 inches. Small piece of old cellophane tape in the upper margin tiny puncture in image area near top-middle portion of the map lightly wrinkled previously rolled. Overall in very good condition. A rare and charming 1989 pictorial cartoon map and calendar of Silicon Valley illustrated by Pham Bach Phi one of at least three such works produced by the artist during the tech boom of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Copyrighted and published as a joint venture between Gist & Erdmann Inc. and Panoramic Map Productions the view employs an inviting almost pastoral aesthetic that deliberately downplays the burgeoning urban sprawl brought on by the explosion of the computer industry. By depicting major freeways as rustic roads and rendering corporate headquarters in a modest commercial style the artist fosters a small-town atmosphere in a region that was at the time undergoing a radical industrial transformation. The poster is populated with company logos and vignettes that celebrate a local economy rapidly centralizing around the technology sector. Notable names include Oracle IBM Apple and Hewlett-Packard practically a "Who's Who" of the era's digital vanguard. The bottom portion of the work is printed with a calendar for the upcoming year of 1990 underscoring the item's original purpose as a functional office product in itself. The year 1990 like most years since the '70s marked the dawn of the digital era in Silicon Valley highlighted by Tim Berners-Lee installation of the first World Wide Web server on a NeXT computer -- Steve Jobs' post-Apple venture -- at CERN. The year also saw the launch of LambdaMOO at Xerox PARC the inaugural Photoshop Invitational in Mountain View and key early developments in 3D graphics and networking that set the stage for the dot-com boom and current computer technologies. Gist & Erdmann, Inc. / Panoramic Map Productions unknown books

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